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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4944836, member: 1969"]
Margin is fine for KP - but it shouldn't dominate the NET as much as it does.   KP will tell you himself its ridiculous to pick tournament teams based on his system.

You have to go back to the roots of KenPom.    KenPom was set up as a ranking system not only to rank the Duke's, Alabama's and Syracuse of the world, but to rank Oral Roberts, Lafayette and Norfolk St.    It was general interest for some like myself, but also a great tool for degenerates.  The only way to effectively rank those really bad teams (and all teams) who continuously lose and hardly ever win OOC, is to rely heavily on margin.

His site was being used by gambling degenerates who wanted to find an advantage in games like Coppin St vs Hampton.    There was a time about 15-20 years ago, where people would seek out large line deviations in any NCAA game using KP  and then auto-bet them ... and it was a very succesful strategy apparently... although i didn't gamble at the time.    Now KP can't really be used like that, because Vegas changed their lines to most of the time reflect his rankings.   So it's hard to say it didn't work - it did.

But it will still spit out anomolies.   And these will tend to show up in "Luck".   Its not because of how he viewed them to start the year which some speculate.  Its typically because of blowouts all going one way and not balancing... or being really lucky or unlucky in close games.
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